Year by Year Polls: 1971 (CLOSED)

gromit82 · #1

Welcome to the Year by Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 1971.

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. You can also list other films outside your top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1971 (unless a specific film has been otherwise declared eligible). Note: I usually don't validate titles for eligibility until after the poll closes, unless a question has been raised about a specific title. So please make sure that the films on your list are eligible, or specifically ask on this thread about titles whose eligibility is in doubt. If you happen to see that someone else has an ineligible film on their ballot, please let them know.

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but for ranked ballots, your list must be numbered. Partially ranked lists (where a certain number at the top are ranked, and the rest are unranked) are allowed. Please make sure that what you mean to do with your list is clear.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1971, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot cannot be counted if the IMDb urls are not included. (And if you list only the URLs but not the films' titles, you'll significantly reduce your fellow voters' enjoyment of this poll, so please make sure to include both titles and URLs.)

- Please note, you must post your list of URLs yourself rather than having someone else do that for you.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points, and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, etc. You get the idea.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

1971 films sorted by most votes on IMDb

1971 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 1971 in film article

1971 films you've checked on ICM

1971 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

2017: 1940 results, 1981 results, 2005 results, 1927 results, 1968 results, 1939 results, 1976 results, 1997 results
2018: 1958 results, 2017 results, 1948 results, 1983 results, 1969 results, 1925 results, 1991 results, 1957 results, 2006 results
2019: 2018 results, 1932 results, 1972 results, 1942 results, 1987 results, 1964 results, 1994 results, 2007 results, 1955 results
2020: 2019 results, 1945 results, 1935 results, 1974 results, 1960 results, 1951 results, 2008 results, 1966 results, 1944 results
2021: 1980 results, 1929 results, 1998 results, 1933 results, 1950 results, 1978 results, 2020 results, 1967 results, 2009 results, 1946 results, 1985 results
2022: 1920 results, 1993 results, 1937 results, 2002 results, 1953 results, 2020 results, 1962 results

The Deadline

This poll is currently scheduled to close on Sunday, August 28, at 10 AM US Pacific time. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be for 2010, followed by 1986 and 1924.

gromit82 · #2

This post is reserved for eligibility rulings.

Aleksey German's Proverka na dorogakh (Trial on the Road) is eligible for this 1971 poll notwithstanding its IMDb year of 1986.

Silga · #3

1. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
3. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
4. Taking Off (Milos Forman)
5. Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
6. Lawman (Michael Winner)
7. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
8. Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner)
9. Duel (Steven Spielberg)
10. The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise)
11. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
12. Bananas (Woody Allen)
13. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
14. The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda)
15. Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
16. Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton)
17. The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet)
18. Shaft (Gordon Parks)

IMDb

RolandKirkSunglasses · #4

1. Gishiki
2. Out 1
3. Death in Venice
4. Chinmoku
5. McCabe & Mrs Miller
6. The Hellstrom Chronicle
7. Minnie and Moskowitz
8. Land of Silence and Darkness
9. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
10. Just Before Nightfall
11. 12 Stulev
12. Battle of Kerzhenets

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066639/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246135/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067755/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067433/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067324/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073221/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065670/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066813/

Leopardi · #5

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Harold and Maude
3. Family Life
4. Wake in Fright
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
6. A New Leaf
7. The Tragedy of Macbeth
8. La maison des bois [The House in the Woods]
9. Johnny Got His Gun
10. Trafic [Traffic]
11. Taking Off
12. Duel
13. Utvandrarna [The Emigrants]
14. The Selfish Giant
15. Vinni-Pukh idyot v gosti [Winnie the Pooh Goes Visiting]
16. Du côté d'Orouët [The Beaches of Orouet]
17. The Panic in Needle Park
18. Les deux Anglaises et le continent [Two English Girls and the Continent]
19. Bananas
20. Socrate [Socrates]

urls

Teproc · #6

1. The French Connection
2. The Andromeda Strain
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Giù la testa
5. Shaft
6. Max et les ferrailleurs
7. A New Leaf
8. Le chat
9. The Last Picture Show
10. Two-Lane Blacktop
11. Daisy Town
12. Fiddler on the Roof

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TraverseTown · #7

1. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
2. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
3. Godzilla vs. Hedorah
4. Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
5. Walkabout
6. Four Flies on Grey Velvet
7. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
8. Death Walks on High Heels
9. The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail
10. The Cat o’ Nine Tails
11. Bay of Blood
12. Lake of Dracula
13. Land of Silence and Darkness
14. Boys in the Sand
15. The Telephone Book
16. Necrology
17. Beware of a Holy Whore
18. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
19. Death in Venice
20. Fata Morgana

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gunnar · #8

1. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2. Fiddler on the Roof
3. Dirty Harry
4. Clockwork Orange
5. The Policeman
6. Harold and Maude
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. Murmur of the Heart
9. A Touch of Zen
10. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
11. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
12. Lawman
13. On Any Sunday
14. Bananas
15. Nicholas and Alexandra
16. Diamonds are Forever
17. Officers
18. The Emigrants
19. Shaft
20. The Hospital

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prodigalgodson · #9

1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
2. One Day Before the Rainy Season (Kaul)
3. Four Nights of the Dreamer (Bresson)
4. The Last Movie (Hopper)
5. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
6. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
7. Salome (Schroeter)
8. Shura (Matsumoto)
9. Death in Venice (Visconti)
10. Out 1 (Rivette)
11. La region centrale (Snow)
12. Fata Morgana (Herzog)
13. Quick Billy (Baillie)
14. Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder)
15. Kaldalon (O.)
16. Socrates (Rossellini)
17. Harold and Maude (Ashby)
18. July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon (Hutton)
19. Necrology (Lawder)
20. The Ceremony (Oshima)

Gotta be a contender for best year ever. Links forthcoming.

beavis · #10

1 . Les lèvres rouges . 5
2 . Punishment Park . 5
3 . The Devils . 5
4 . Trzecia czesc nocy . 5
5 . Szindbád . 5
6 . Shura . 4,5
7 . Two-Lane Blacktop . 4,5
8 . Wake in Fright . 4,5
9 . Utvandrarna . 4,5
10 . W.R. - Misterije organizma . 4,5
11 . Rendez-vous à Bray . 4,5
12 . Hanno cambiato faccia . 4,5
13 . Out 1, noli me tangere . 4,5
14 . Szerelem . 4,5
15 . Viva la muerte . 4,5
16 . Walkabout . 4,5
17 . The Last Movie . 4
18 . Taking Off . 4
19 . Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich . 4
20 . Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu vidznakoyu . 4

Spoiler

Very fine year indeed, I noted my ratings out of 5, but on the out of 10 scale everyting is rated 8.5 or higher, and there are a lot of 9's here!
I might have wanted to include Proverka na Dorogakh as my 20th entry, but then Imdb said it was only made in 1986... one of the many reasons why Imdb is not the best tool for these kind of polls (not that I have another solution

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Mysterious Dude · #11

Traveller · #12

01. Mandara
02. Shura
03. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur
04. Xia nü
05. A Clockwork Orange
06. Les lèvres rouges
07. The Devils
08. The Hellstrom Chronicle
09. Trzecia czesc nocy
10. Szerelem

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229553/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165473/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067641/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064451/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067690/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066993/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067885/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067814/

klaus78 · #13

1. Harold and Maude
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Walkabout
4. Morte a Venezia
5. Get Carter
6. Utvandrarna
7. Trzecia czesc nocy
8. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur
9. La maison des bois
10. Fata Morgana
11. The French Connection
12. Vanishing Point
13. Emitaï
14. The Devils
15. La région centrale
16. Blindman
17. Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
18. Szindbád
19. Wake in Fright
20. The Hellstrom Chronicle

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iCheckMovies · #14

My top 20

1. The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
2. Reality's Invisible (1971, Robert E. Fulton)
3. Walkabout (1971, Nicholas Roeg)
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
5. Agitátorok / The Agitators (1971, Dezso Magyar)
6. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
7. Voldtekt / Rape (1971, Anja Breien)
8. Family Life (1971, Ken Loach)
9. W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971, Dusan Makavejev)
10. Du côté d'Orouët (1971, Jacques Rozier)

11. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
12. Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)
13. Szindbád (1971, Zoltán Huszárik)
14. Les amis / The Friends (1971, Gérard Blain)
15. Nausicaa (1971, Agnès Varda)
16. Dolgie provody / The Long Farewell (1971, Kira Muratova)
17. The Boy Friend (1971, Ken Russell)
18. Hangyaboly / Ant-Hill (1971, Zoltán Fábri)
19. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, Monte Hellman)
20. Shura (1971, Toshio Matsumoto)

Honourable mentions:

21. Vladimir et Rosa (1971, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
22. Kokuhakuteki joyûron / Confessions Among Actresses (1971, Yoshishige Yoshida)
23. Viva la muerte (1971, Fernando Arrabal)
24. Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu vidznakoyu / The White Bird Marked with Black (1971, Yuri Ilyenko)
25. Taking Off (1971, Milos Forman)
26. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
27. Carnal Knowledge (1971, Mike Nichols)
28. 10 Rillington Place (1971, Richard Fleischer)
29. Bang Bang (1971, Andrea Tonacci)
30. Gishiki / The Ceremony (1971, Nagisa Ôshima)

31. Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
32. Sho o suteyo machi e deyou / Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971, Shûji Terayama)
33. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
34. Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
35. Inochi bô ni furô / Inn of Evil (1971, Masaki Kobayashi)
36. Égi bárány / Agnus dei (1971, Miklós Jancsó)
37. Hachigatsu no nureta suna / Wet Sand in August (1971, Toshiya Fujita)
38. Dauriya (1971, Viktor Tregubovich)
39. Uz zase skácu pres kaluze / Jumping Over Puddles (1971, Karel Kachyna)
40. Sacco e Vanzetti (1971, Giuliano Montaldo)

41. The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
42. La salamandre (1971, Alain Tanner)
43. The Horsemen (1971, John Frankenheimer)
44. Nie lubie poniedzialku / I Hate Mondays (1971, Tadeusz Chmielewski)
45. Eine Sache, die sich versteht (15x) / Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971, Hartmut Bitomsky & Harun Farocki)
46. Reazione a catena / A Bay of Blood (1971)
47. Giù la testa / Duck You Sucker / A Fistful of Dynamite (1971, Sergio Leone)
48. Il Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
49. La folie des grandeurs / Delusions of Grandeur (1971, Gérard Oury)
50. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur / Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson)

Even more honourable mentions:

Bakuto gaijin butai / Sympathy For the Underdog (1971, Kinji Fukasaku)
Lotte in Italia / Struggle in Italy (1971, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Max et les ferrailleurs (1971, Claude Sautet)
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg)
Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh / The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971, Sergio Martino)
Le Souffle au Coeur / Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle)
Una lucertola con la pelle di donna / Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971, Lucio Fulci)
Addio zio Tom / Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971, Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi)
La classe operaia va in paradiso / The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971, Elio Petri)
Out 1, noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette & Suzanne Schiffman)
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971, Ian MacNaughton)
La tarantola dal ventre nero / Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971, Paolo Cavara)
Sikkim (1971, Satyajit Ray)
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit / Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog)
Le moindre geste (1971, Jean-Pierre Daniel & Fernand Deligny)
Quick Billy (1971, Bruce Baillie)
O País de São Saruê (1971, Vladimir Carvalho)
Behinderte Zukunft? / Handicapped Future (1971, Werner Herzog)

URLs:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067549/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6686120/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066750/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066993/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146344/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068569/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070007/?ref_=adv_li_tt

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067815/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065393/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210193/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092905/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066858/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067177/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165473/?ref_=adv_li_tt

murnaunosferatu · #15

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Death in Venice
3. Touch of Zen
4. Out 1: Noli me tangere
5. The French Connection
6. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
7. The Last Picture Show
8. La Region Centrale
9. A New Leaf
10. Duel
11. Four Nights of a Dreamer
12. Murmur of the Heart
13. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
14. The Go-Between
15. Get Carter
16. Walkabout
17. Minnie and Moskowitz
18. Land of Silence and Darkness

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Fergenaprido · #16

1. Mon oncle Antoine [My Uncle Antoine]
2. The Last Picture Show
3. 10 Rillington Place
4. Fiddler on the Roof
5. The Andromeda Strain
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. The French Connection
8. Proverka na dorogakh [Trial on the Road/Check-up on the Road]*
9. Anand
10. U gori raste zelen bor [The Pine Tree in the Mountain]
11. Harold and Maude
12. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
13. Walkabout
14. Carnal Knowledge
15. A New Leaf
16. Thartharah fawq al-Nil [Adrift on the Nile]
17. The Point
18. A Clockwork Orange
19. Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice]
20. Voldtekt [Rape]

*Not released until 1985 due to state censorship, but it's still a 1971 film in my book. I'll add an alternate in case it's not accepted.

21. Bedknobs and Broomsticks

URLs

gromit82 · #17

I see that two voters have expressed interest in voting for Proverka na dorogakh (listed by IMDb as a 1986 film) in this poll. As I'm not familiar with this film, I would appreciate some other opinions as to whether it should be declared eligible for this poll.

iCheckMovies · #18

It used to be listed as '71 and I believe it has bounced back and forth between these years. Removed it from my list when I was adding the IMDb links, but if allowed I'll add it back.

RogerTheMovieManiac88 · #19

Kino Teatr has it as 1971 (https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/5723/annot/). It would appear to come down to how one assigns a film: year of production or year of release. When there is such a length of time between the two years, I would tend to assign the film to the year of production. I think either year would be justifiable though.

Lonewolf2003 · #20

1. A Clockwork Orange: 9.5
2. Harold and Maude: 9.5
3. Walkabout: 9.2
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller: 9.0
5. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit: 9.0
6. Le souffle au coeur (Murmur of the Heart): 8.5
7. Johnny Got His Gun: 8.5
8. Straw Dogs: 8.2
9. The Last Picture Show: 8.2
10. Shura (Demons): 8.2

11. Minnie and Moskowitz: 8.2
12. Giù la testa [Duck, You Sucker/A Fistful of Dynamite]: 8.2
13. Hsia nu [A Touch of Zen]: 8.0
14. Wake in Fright: 8.0
15. A New Leaf: 8.0
16. Two-Lane Blacktop: 8.0
17. Shaft: 8.0
18. Dirty Harry: 8.0
19. Szerelem [Love]: 8.0
20. Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice]: 8.0

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cinewest · #21

RenaultR · #22

1. Two-Lane Blacktop - Monte Hellman
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer - Robert Bresson
3. Walkabout - Nicolas Roeg
4. The Decameron - Pier Paolo Pasolini
5. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
6. Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpah
7. Klute - Alan J. Pakula
8. Death in Venice - Luchino Visconti
9. A New Leaf - Elaine May
10. The French Connection - William Friedkin
11. Max and the Junkmen - Claude Sautet

P.S. Ranking beyond the first three is difficult for this one.

Torgo · #23

Lonewolf2003 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 9:02 am 1. A Clockwork Orange: 9.5
2. Harold and Maude: 9.5
3. Walkabout: 9.2
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller: 9.0
5. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit: 9.0
6. Le souffle au coeur (Murmur of the Heart): 8.5
7. Johnny Got His Gun: 8.5
8. Straw Dogs: 8.2
9. The Last Picture Show: 8.2
10. Shura (Demons): 8.2

11. Minnie and Moskowitz: 8.2
12. Giù la testa [Duck, You Sucker/A Fistful of Dynamite]: 8.2
13. Hsia nu [A Touch of Zen]: 8.0
14. Wake in Fright: 8.0
15. A New Leaf: 8.0
16. Two-Lane Blacktop: 8.0
17. Shaft: 8.0
18. Dirty Harry: 8.0
19. Szerelem [Love]: 8.0
20. Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice]: 8.0

Spoiler
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067324/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067778/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165473/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067433/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064451/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067541/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067482/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067741/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067814/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/

I'm so close to just copy+pasting your lists for the poll. Never goes wrong

peeptoad · #24

1. Two-Lane Blacktop
2. Wake In Fright
3. Les lèvres rouges/ Daughters of Darkness
4. Straw Dogs
5. The Brotherhood of Satan
6. Punishment Park
7. Harold and Maude
8. Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh/ The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
9. La corta notte delle bambole di vetro/ Short Night of Glass Dolls
10. Giornata nera per l'ariete/ The Fifth Cord
11. The Devils
12. The Night Visitor
13. Viva la Muerte/ Long Live Death
14. The Abominable Dr Phibes
15. Le souffle au Coeur/ Murmur of the Heart
16. El techo de cristal/ The Glass Ceiling
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. Sho o suteyo machi e deyô/Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
19. La coda dello scorpione/ The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail
20. Una lucertola con la pelle di donna/ A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

1971

Lonewolf2003 · #25

Torgo wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 12:28 pm
Lonewolf2003 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 9:02 am 1. A Clockwork Orange: 9.5
2. Harold and Maude: 9.5
3. Walkabout: 9.2
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller: 9.0
5. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit: 9.0
6. Le souffle au coeur (Murmur of the Heart): 8.5
7. Johnny Got His Gun: 8.5
8. Straw Dogs: 8.2
9. The Last Picture Show: 8.2
10. Shura (Demons): 8.2

11. Minnie and Moskowitz: 8.2
12. Giù la testa [Duck, You Sucker/A Fistful of Dynamite]: 8.2
13. Hsia nu [A Touch of Zen]: 8.0
14. Wake in Fright: 8.0
15. A New Leaf: 8.0
16. Two-Lane Blacktop: 8.0
17. Shaft: 8.0
18. Dirty Harry: 8.0
19. Szerelem [Love]: 8.0
20. Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice]: 8.0

Spoiler
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067324/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067778/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165473/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067433/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064451/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067541/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067482/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067741/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067814/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/

I'm so close to just copy+pasting your lists for the poll. Never goes wrong

hurluberlu · #26

1. Utvandrarna ( Jan Troell )
2. Morte a Venezia ( Luchino Visconti )
3. The Last Picture Show ( Peter Bogdanovich )
4. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur ( Robert Bresson )
5. Harold and Maude ( Hal Ashby )
6. A Clockwork Orange ( Stanley Kubrick )
7. Walkabout ( Nicolas Roeg )
8. Du côté d'Orouët ( Jacques Rozier )
9. Szerelem ( KÃ¡roly Makk )
10. Le chat ( Pierre Granier-Deferre )
11. The French Connection ( William Friedkin )
12. Wake in Fright ( Ted Kotcheff )
13. Le souffle au coeur ( Louis Malle )
14. Xia nü ( King Hu )
15. The Panic in Needle Park ( Jerry Schatzberg )
16. Les deux Anglaises et le continent ( François Truffaut )
17. Trafic ( Jacques Tati )
18. McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( Robert Altman )
19. Il Decameron ( Pier Paolo Pasolini )
20. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ( Melvin Van Peebles )

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blocho · #27

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. Duck, You Sucker
4. Wake in Fright
5. Dirty Harry
6. The French Connection
7. Macbeth
8. Basic Training
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. The Emigrants
11. 10 Rillington Place
12. Shura
13. Lawman
14. The Panic in Needle Park
15. Malpertuis
16. Shaft
17. Harold and Maude
18. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
19. Daughters of Darkness
20. The Beguiled

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Honorable Mention: Play Misty for Me, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, A New Leaf, Murmur of the Heart

The Worst: Big Jake, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, They Might be Giants, Sacco & Vanzetti, Two-Lane Blacktop

jeff_v · #28

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Le souffle au coeur / Murmur of the Heart
4. The Last Picture Show
5. Walkabout
6. Gishiki / Ceremony
7. Straw Dogs
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth
9. Morte a Venezia / Death in Venice
10. Mon oncle Antoine
11. Two-Lane Blacktop
12. Les deux Anglaises et le continent / Two English Girls
13. The Hospital
14. Shura / Demons
15. The Go-Between
16. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit / Land of Silence and Darkness
17. Seemabaddha / Company Ltd.
18. Sunday Bloody Sunday
19. The Hired Hand
20. Dirty Harry

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Torgo · #29

blocho wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 6:19 pm The Worst: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Two-Lane Blacktop

jeff_v wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 6:56 pm 1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
11. Two-Lane Blacktop

OldAle1 · #30

Those guys need to meet out behind the bike racks and brawl it out.

blocho · #31

OldAle1 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 10:05 pm Those guys need to meet out behind the bike racks and brawl it out.

Or a duel in the snow in Washington state.

gromit82 · #32

RogerTheMovieManiac88 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 7:27 am Kino Teatr has it as 1971 (https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/5723/annot/). It would appear to come down to how one assigns a film: year of production or year of release. When there is such a length of time between the two years, I would tend to assign the film to the year of production. I think either year would be justifiable though.

Thanks. I've decided to make Proverka na dorogakh eligible for this poll.

Fergenaprido · #33

gromit82 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 11:18 pm
RogerTheMovieManiac88 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 7:27 am Kino Teatr has it as 1971 (https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/5723/annot/). It would appear to come down to how one assigns a film: year of production or year of release. When there is such a length of time between the two years, I would tend to assign the film to the year of production. I think either year would be justifiable though.
Thanks. I've decided to make Proverka na dorogakh eligible for this poll.

Thanks Gromit!

Torgo · #34

Now how super convenient is that? 1986 is the year we decided to do next in our poll series. The case has been very clearly stated and danger is minimal that people will now vote twice for it / in the wrong year.

Y U M E · #35

1971
Final List

01. Долгие проводы | The Long Farewell (Muratova)
02. 書を捨てよ町へ出よう | Throw Away Your Books and Rally in the Streets (Terayama)
03. 出所祝い | The Wolves (Gosha)
04. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
05. Fata Morgana (Herzog)
06. Viva la Muerte (Arrabal)
07. Szerelem | Love (Makk)
08. Bleak Moments (Leigh)
09. সীমাবদ্ধ | Company Limited (Ray)
10. Warnung vor einer Heiligen Nutte | Beware of a Holy Whore (RWF)
11. Les Lèvres Rouges (Kümel)
12. Szindbád / Sinbad (Huszárik)
13. Quatre Nuits d'un Rêveur (Bresson)
14. 俠女 | A Touch of Zen (Hu)
15. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Polanski)
16. Harold and Maude (Ashby)
17. いのちぼうにふろう | Inn of Evil (Kobayashi)
18. Lo Strano Vizio della Signora Wardh (Martino)
19. 儀式 | The Ceremony (Oshima)
20. La Corta Notte delle Bambole di Vetro | Short Night of Glass Dolls (Lado)

What an amazing year!!! I wasn't able to include films by Mani Kaul, Walerian Borowczyk, Elio Petri, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Martino, Damiano Damiani, Dario Argento, Masao Adachi, John Frankenheimer, Corrado Farina, Tadeusz Konwicki, Akio Jissoji, Miklos Jancso, Robert Altman, Dan Pita, Kazimierz Kutz, Aleksej Gherman, Alain Tanner, Toshio Matsumoto, Eric Rohmer, Louis Malle, John Schlesinger, Sam Peckinpah, Paolo Cavara, Jan Troell, Melvin Van Peebles, Ulu Grosbard, ... all of which I rated 8.0/10.0 or higher

Maybe this is the best year ever???...!!!

Note: without any doubt La Cicatrice Intérieure de Philippe Garrel is my favourite film (and music) from (i.e. produced in) 1971, but since it's stated as a 1972-release on imdb it's eligible in this poll...

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gromit82 · #36

Y U M E wrote: ↑August 5th, 2022, 3:24 pm Note: without any doubt La Cicatrice Intérieure de Philippe Garrel is my favourite film (and music) from (i.e. produced in) 1971, but since it's stated as a 1972-release on imdb it's eligible in this poll...

From context I realize that there is a typo in that sentence, but just to clarify, La cicatrice intérieure is indeed ineligible for this poll as a 1972 film. When we did the Year by Year Poll for 1972, three years ago, La cicatrice intérieure was included; it received four votes for 33.5 points and placed 63rd.

Y U M E · #37

Yeah, sorry that was a typo. My bad, I know it INeligible now.

In my own database I use the production/copyright years as they are shown on the opening or closing credits of the film itself. So in this year-by-year polls I have to check/double check the year of release that imdb uses. I understand we have to draw the line somewhere, so no problems to use/follow imdb.

zzzorf · #38

1. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2. Friends
3. L'arciere di fuoco
4. And Now for Something Completely Different
5. Harold and Maude
6. Carry on at Your Convenience
7. Duel
8. Soleil rouge
9. Curious Alice
10. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
11. Wake in Fright
12. Shura
13. Fiddler on the Roof
14. Vampyros Lesbos
15. Willard
16. Twins of Evil
17. Gumshoe
18. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
19. Santo contra los cazadores de cabezas
20. Walkabout

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Professor_B · #39

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Punishment Park
3. The Devils
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Get Carter
6. The Hired Hand
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. WR: Mysteries of the Organism
9. Mabeth
10. Harold and Maude
11. Straw Dogs
12. Walkabout
13. The Last Picture Show
14. The Hospital
15. The French Connection
16. The Short Night of Glass Dolls
17. They Might be Giants
18. Vanishing Point
19. Death in Venice
20. Traffic

timshelboy · #40

Preminger's mordant infidelity & divorce comedy gave Dyan Cannon her best role

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